The Terrace
Dutch; Delft
c. 1660
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
The military gear, musical instruments, and songbooks scattered throughout this composition hint at worldly and romantic pursuits, but the chief subject of the painting is the illusionism of the near and far objects framed by the window. Optical challenges were particularly intriguing to artists working in the Dutch city of Delft. This painting would have blurred the boundaries of indoor and outdoor when hung in a collector’s home.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 106.9 × 87.4 cm (42 1/16 × 34 3/8 in.)
Museum record · 9 owners · 9 exhibitions
Provenance
- Possibly Aernout Eelbrecht, Leiden, inventory 1683.
- Pierre Fouquet, Amsterdam, before 1802.
- Mettra Fils (Magasin du Bureau des Arts), Berlin, by 1802; presumably sold by Mettra Fils to Prince Radziwill, Nieborow, by 1803; by descent to Prince Sigismund Radziwill, Paris, 1866; sold, March 22–23, 1866, lot.
- 78, as Metsu, Interior de cour d'une maison hollandaise to Théophile Thoré-Bürger; sold his private sale, Paris, February 1870, listed as Metzu, Interior hollandais for F15,000.
- Duke George Nicolaevich de Leuchtenberg (died 1929), St. Petersburg.
- Spink, London, by 1920.
- P. and D. Colnaghi, London, by March 1920; sold by Colnaghi to Calouste S. Gulbenkian on 3 March 1920.
- P. and D. Colnaghi, London, by 1929.
- Leonard Gow, Camis Eskan, Dumbartonshire (died 1936), by 1935; by descent to Leonard Harper Gow, Glasgow; sold through D. Katz, Dieren, The Netherlands, as agent for Gow to the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1939; exchanged through E. and A. Silberman, New York, February 1945; sold by Silberman to the Art Institute, February 1948.
Exhibitions
- Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Vermeer Oorprong en Invloed Fabritus, De Hooch, De Witte, July 9 – October 9, 1935.
- Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century, 1938, as Pieter de Hooch.
- New York, World's Fair, Masterpieces of Art, 1939, as Pieter de Hooch.
- New York, Duveen Galleries, Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century, October 8 – November 7, 1942; Art Institute of Chicago, November 18– December 16, 1942, as Hendrik van der Burch.
- Art Association of Montreal, Five Centuries of Dutch Art, March 1–31, 1944.
- Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Park und Garten in der Malerei vom 16.
- Jahrhundert bis zur Geganwart, May 15 – July 14, 1957, as Hendrik van der Burch.
- St. Petersburg, Fla, Dutch Life in the Golden Century, January 21 – March 2 1974; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, April 4 – May 4, 1975, as Hendrik van der Burch.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Faces, Places, Inner Spaces, June 2003-July 2007 (Hammerman Gallery of the Kraft Education Center;.) The Art Institute of Chicago, A Case for Wine, July11—September 20, 2009, no exhibition catalogue.
